sentimental - Story 129868 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mr. Roberts was preparing dinner when he noticed a small, unassuming envelope slipped under his door. He opened it, revealing a gift certificate to a local bookstore.

The attached note read, "Thanks for introducing me to the magic of reading. - Emily."

He felt his throat tighten. Emily had been a shy girl, lost in a world of her own. He smiled, remembering how she would devour books. He thought about going straight to the shop, but he had the feeling that he might be best to wait a little.

Emotion: sentimental

Cluster: Nostalgia / Reflection

PC1 (Valence): 0.89 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -1.58

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion sentimental. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 sentimental stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the sentimental emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the sentimental vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`L`	0.677
`fondly`	0.567
`memories`	0.503
`曾`	0.488
`reminis`	0.466

Suppressed:

`either`	-0.515
`or`	-0.488
`[]`	-0.473
`-`	-0.408
`не`	-0.396